The System Architect is responsible for defining, owning, and governing the end-to-end system architecture for the Enterprise metrics-driven platform supporting NAVSUP readiness posture assessment. This role ensures that evolving mission requirements are translated into a secure, scalable, and integrated system that delivers accurate, trusted readiness metrics. The System Architect serves as the technical authority across the system lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on data architecture, system integration, and mission alignment.

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

System Architecture & Technical Leadership:

• Define, own, and maintain the end-to-end system architecture and technical vision for the ReadyForce dashboard, ensuring alignment with NAVSUP mission readiness objectives.
• Serve as the technical authority for system-level architectural decisions, standards, and design tradeoffs.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity requirements, and applicable DoD and industry best practices.

Requirements & Pilot Support

• Translate high-level, evolving stakeholder and operational requirements into system capabilities, architectural patterns, and technical solutions, particularly during pilot execution.
• Lead architectural trade studies, impact analyses, and option evaluations to support informed decision-making as requirements mature.

Data & Metrics Architecture

• Define and govern the system data architecture, including authoritative data sources, data models, interfaces, and data flows.
• Establish and maintain readiness metric definitions, normalization rules, and data lineage to ensure accuracy, consistency, traceability, and auditability.
• Collaborate with operational, functional, and analytics stakeholders to validate that dashboard metrics accurately represent readiness posture.

Systems Integration & Engineering

• Lead the design, evaluation, and implementation of system integration solutions, ensuring seamless interoperability across internal and external systems.
• Develop and maintain system integration documentation, interface control documents (ICDs), process maps, and technical standards to support consistent and repeatable integration practices.
• Coordinate with cross-functional engineering teams, system owners, and program managers to ensure integrated planning and synchronized execution of upgrades, migrations, and deployments.

Non-Functional Requirements & Operational Readiness

• Define and enforce non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, availability, resiliency, and reliability appropriate for mission-critical operational use.
• Architect solutions to support operational tempo, surge conditions, and future system growth.
• Provide expert technical support during system incidents and post-implementation reviews to validate architectural integrity and operational effectiveness.

Configuration, Change & Lifecycle Governance

• Oversee configuration integrity by reviewing changes to configuration items, validating release packages, and ensuring system documentation is accurate and current.
• Support the Change Advisory Board (CAB) by performing impact analyses, preparing technical assessments, and advising on risks and dependencies for proposed changes.
• Provide architectural oversight across the full system lifecycle, ensuring solutions support long-term maintainability, extensibility, and modernization.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Act as a key technical liaison between NAVSUP stakeholders, program leadership, and engineering teams to ensure shared understanding of system intent, constraints, and risks.
• Clearly communicate architectural decisions, assumptions, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience as a System Architect, Lead Architect, or Principal Engineer for complex, data-driven systems.
• Strong expertise in system and enterprise architecture, including requirements decomposition and architectural governance.
• Proven experience with system integration platforms and tools.
• Hands-on experience with data architecture and data integration, including analytics or dashboard-based systems.
• Solid understanding of identity and access management (IAM), authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth, JWT), and cybersecurity best practices.
• Experience defining and enforcing non-functional requirements for operational or mission-critical systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical teams.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with DoD or government environments, including security and compliance constraints remember.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline; or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience with enterprise systems.

Clearance Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen. Must have an active Secret clearance. 

Physical Requirements: The ideal candidate must at a minimum be able to meet the following physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, and fingers.
• Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergency situations.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer.

The Nakupuna Companies use a market-based compensation strategy to ensure that our employees are compensated within applicable market ranges commensurate with multiple factors, including but not limited to the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements, and position location. The projected compensation range for this position is $145,000.00 to $170,000.00 (annualized USD). The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Nakupuna Companies total compensation package for employees.